Luciocephalus

Luciocephalus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Osphronemidae
Genus: Luciocephalus
Bleeker, 1851
Type species
Diplopterus pulcher
J. E. Gray, 1830
Synonyms
  • Diplopterus J. E. Gray, 1830 (Preoccupied)

Luciocephalus is a genus of gouramies native to Southeast Asia.[1] Both are extremely specialized niche predators native to parts of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei Darussalam; in addition, both species - like a number of other osphronemid genera - are paternal mouthbrooders.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). Species of Luciocephalus in FishBase. February 2014 version.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/13/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.